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bipinnate

American  
[bahy-pin-ayt] / baɪˈpɪn eɪt /

adjective

Botany.
  1. pinnate, as a leaf, with the divisions also pinnate.


bipinnate British  
/ baɪˈpɪnˌeɪt /

adjective

  1. (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bipinnate Scientific  
/ bī-pĭn′āt′ /
  1. Relating to compound leaves that grow opposite each other on a larger stem; twice-compound or twice-pinnate. Bipinnate leaves have a feathery appearance. The acacia, coffeetree, and silktree have bipinnate leaves.


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Etymology

Origin of bipinnate

From the New Latin word bipinnātus, dating back to 1785–95; see bi- 1, pinnate


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“There were two options: You move the house, or the tree dies,” says Duprat, 69, on a temperate afternoon this past August, standing beneath its delicate bipinnate leaves.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

The fertile fronds shorter, closely bipinnate with the pinnules rolled up into berry-like structures which contain the spore cases.

From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton

Fronds one to three feet high, oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate, the upper pinnæ lanceolate, the lower triangular with spinulose teeth.

From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton

Pod flat, oblong, often falcate, few–several-seeded.—Low perennial herbs, or woody at base, punctate with black glands, with bipinnate leaves, and naked racemes of yellow flowers opposite the leaves or terminal.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

An elegant Acacia, about thirty or thirty-five feet high, grew on its small flats: it had large drooping glaucous bipinnate leaves, long broad pods, and oval seeds, half black, and half bright red.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt

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